The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces
The accurate accusation of tone-deafness has been circulating to frame the now-defunct Pepsi ad staring Kendall Jenner. For those who
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Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians
The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians conference in New Orleans was circulation. For black communities beyond academia,
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Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker
In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews
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Hip Hop, Masculinity, and “The Get Down”
Why does it seem like hip hop can handle only a handful of prominent female MCs at a time? Roxanne
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On Performance and Black Theatre: An Interview with Playwright Nina Angela Mercer
This interview is based on an oral history that I collected with Washington, D.C.-grown and Bronx, New York-based playwright Nina
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